Fox has picked up freshman dramas "Empire" and "Gotham" for next season and renewed "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" for a third season.
"Empire" has connected with young adults in two telecasts on Wednesdays after "American Idol." "Gotham," the Batman prequel, won...

Call it a fictional high-school reunion.
Fans of the 1978 musical film "Grease" got a huge surprise Jan 3 when actress Didi Conn, who played Frenchie, reunited with co-star Olivia Newton-John on stage at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
It...

CareerSource Central Florida mobile unit will be at the Lady Lake Burger King, 1007 Bichara Blvd., for a hiring fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday.
Burger King has more than 25 positions to fill including shift managers (job order number 9968168) and...

Sunday, Jan. 4
Last light The 21st annual Symphony of Lights, a 20-minute drive through more than 70 larger-than-life holiday light displays, comes to a close. Held at 5950 Symphony Woods Road in Columbia. Hours are 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.. Admission is $20...

I've probably said it before, but originality is overrated.
Which is why the most valuable tool in any enterprise's development arsenal just may be a feather duster, to make presentable something it already has and consumers already know.
This is true for nearly all established businesses, but few as transparently as television, where the penchant for recycling material — sometimes in thrillingly new ways, but often without so much as a new theme song — recalls Native Americans' famous...

Gisele Bundchen's Chanel No. 5 ad dropped on Wednesday, and as beautiful as it is, it raises almost as many questions as Brad Pitt's puzzling effort did in October 2012.
The world's highest-paid supermodel, who led the charge during the French fashion house's mock protest at Paris Fashion Week last month, is the star of "The Great Gatsby" director Baz Luhrmann's short film "The One That I Want," which touts the brand's signature fragrance.
Luhrmann answers a few questions about his latest work -- such...

"Angels in America" is a play that actors, directors and designers clamor to do. Tony Kushner's script, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" and broken into two separate long evenings ("Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika"), provides the richest of dramatic landscapes, blending modern social issues, religious iconography, real-life historical figures, romance, comedy, politics and family drama.
Yet few get the chance to perform this epic work outside of college theaters, which are just...

Thirty high schools have signed up to participate in the 2015 Freddy Awards program presented by the State Theatre in Easton to recognize and reward accomplishments in musical theater in Lehigh and Northampton counties, and Warren County, N.J.
For the 13th edition of the Freddys, schools will be presenting a mix of old-time and contemporary musicals in the spring. Most have been presented previously during the Freddys.
A team of evaluators will watch the shows and vote on their favorites in 21...

A.R. Gurney is one of the most produced playwrights at the Westport Country Playhouse with 14 mainstage works. Now it can add another title to its list — a world premiere.
Artistic director Mark Lamos — and a longtime Gurney collaborator — will stage the Connecticut writer's latest: "Love and Money" at the Westport Country Playhouse July 21 to Aug. 8., 2015.
Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre will co-produce the new work, with performances there set after the Westport run in late...

Each season, thousands of theater-goers come out and support the hundreds of actors, musicians and those behind the scene who make possible community theater in our area.
Many of these amateur performers work all day and rehearse all evening to bring these shows to the stage. The works range from the tried-and-true to the tricky and challenging.
So raise a glass to our local community theater. Here's a look at what's coming up this season:
Court House Players
"A Christmas Carol," Nov. 13-16....